Peoria Riverfront Museum

Educational Programs: The Peoria Riverfront Museum provides lifelong learning educational opportunities in the arts, history, science and achievement. The opportunities include an emphasis on K-12 learning for the schools, public and parochial, as well as homeschool coops, in a 20-county central Illinois area for an average of 30,000 students on an annual basis.

Exhibitions/Memberships/Museum Shop: The Peoria Riverfront Museum provides art, science, history and achievement exhibitions, activities and programs in five main galleries, dispersed cases, and outdoor sculpture areas to display temporary and long-term exhibits. On an annual basis, the museum serves 150,000 visitors onsite and 1,000 through outreach programs and records more than 500,000 website and social media engagements.

Giant Screen Theater: The Peoria Riverfront Museum includes a Giant Screen Theater. The content presented in the Giant Screen Theater is reviewed by the museum's Programs staff to help ensure that it supports the mission of the museum. The content includes documentaries made for a giant screen, films that enhance current exhibitions, and classic or second-run movies that meet the mission and take full advantage of the giant screen's technical capabilities. Revenue includes Concession sales.

Planetarium: The purpose of the Peoria Riverfront Museum Dome Planetarium is to provide lifelong learning opportunities in a variety of STEM disciplines, especially astronomy, physics, and engineering. The Planetarium presents a variety of school and public programs throughout the year and strives to inspire the next generation of space explorers, scientists and artists.